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Lisaint:
Which stats will they use to identify
The Wealthy
The middle class
And low class?


Nigerians ain't patriotic to that level sir
Hope you know?

BVN of both parents or guardians to certify monthly income. Parents abroad would bring letters from employers abroad or their business account statements. If i am not wrong Spain currently does this model.

Lisaint:
Wonderful.........
If i may ask
If Elizade merge with AAUA as you propose,
What will happen tp the sch fees?
How much is the minimum wage ?
How should the parent get the money,?


The root of the funding problem is the Government
They keep creating new institution why the old ones are crying of funds


The more they create
The more we have more problem

The school fees will reduce. I expect the private unis to charge based on the economic strata of each students.
Wealthy home Kids: Should Pay 100% of Fees
Middle class kids: should pay 30-50% of Fees
Low income kids: should pay 10% of Fees

Every year we have about 3,000 kids thronging babcock willing to pay 1.2 million as fees. If we add ppl çoming from OSU, then the difference in their own fees would be paid by the state govt.

Bn

CodeTemplar:
I consider this a far better use of state funds than sponsoring religious activities or building low standard state schools and think it will help galvanize the FG's plan to increase public university fees and standard. I say this because any state govt already paying private school fee for about half a thousand students can afford such fee.
Nice move.
Some state govt may also need to close down their state uni or upgrade it to the emerging standard private universities are setting.

The "State university system" is not working because the private sector is not interested in investing in them. Instead the govt should approach and collaborate with private universities. For example rather than have Ogun State Uni, why not give a annual allocation meant for OSU to Babcock while merging OSU campus as an extension of Babcock, so Babcock would absorb a OSU students. The extra fund from Ogun would help Babcock keep down fees significantly while ensuring govt is no longer directly burdened with investment in physical infrastructure, unions and all other shenanigans that come with public universities. If the state governments are consistent on their own part then the model will work because there would be a larger pool of resources which includes Babcock proprietors, State govt and a moderate tuition.

In this model state govts can adopt three private universities with proven financial sustainability records and co-fund them alongside their proprietors in exchange for increased enrollment(50% indigenes, 50% others) and lower fees not exceeding 200,000.00 for courses with exception of medicine and surgery. NB: Northern states should not use this model.


USA for instance spends 4%(last i checked) of total budget on education(less than Nigeria). But you would be mistakened to equate that with a poor university system because they significantly share the burden with the private sector. The US federal govt has no university (except military academies) but give grants to Harvard and Standford.
Now compare the US system to that of public universities in UK who went on strike some months ago or Australian public universities which have been crying against cuts in funding.

Public universities i suggest should be left for small nations where population increase is little. E.g Nordic nations, rwanda etc.

Militant Atheism is evil

Lalasticlala

Better than sending folks outside the country. I still see no sense in African countries sponsoring scholarship outside the continent. It is we arming foreign nations against ourselves -
A ridiculous brain drain as the people never come back.

If the inadequacy of qualified personnel is the problem, then bring the foreigners here to train Nigerians and solve Nigerian problems... Kudos to KASG.

Kano State Government has released one quarter of the outstanding tuition fees (for 2016-2018 session) totalling N265,637,741 for indigent students in private universities.

At a briefing in his office, the Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, said the universities include

A-Qalam University, Katsina – N19,092, 978
American University in Nigeria – N21,526,43
Bells, Ota N102,550,123
Crescent University, Abeokuta N18,410,875 Igbinedion, Okada N104,057,741.

The Executive Council, he said, approved N210 million for the provision of solar-powered streetlights in boarding secondary schools and night Islamiyya schools in various locations across the state.

He said the council okayed N354, 975, 775.17 for the construction of Local Government Staff Development Centre, adding that N14, 239, 140.37 was approved for the reconstruction/repairs of Kailani and Achi Lafiya health Posts in Kiru Local Government.

The commissioner said the council approved N24, 478, 168 for the provision of three diffrent electricity transformers at Sharada, Kwanar Freedom Radio Small Scale Industrial area.

The council witnessed the signing of the Kano State College of Arts, Science and Remedial Studies by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje which will enable the college to issue certificates of education.

http://thenationonlineng.net/kano-pays-n265m-fee-arrears-to-five-private-varsities/

Its alright. Nigeria will be great again lalasticlala

InansBobo:
the members don't even behave like their GS. They don't like relating with other Christians from other denominations while their pastor do. They're failing in the most important commandment of love.

I thank God i am not the only one noticing this.

TonyeBarcanista:
I trust Pastor Kumuyi with his holiness sermon.


N/B: Kumuyi can never endorse Buhari, APC, PDP or any political interests, neither does Deeper Life Bible Church approve of partisan politics... #Fact.

So Kumuyi will simply use the medium to preach the gospel of Holiness while maintaining that citizens pray for their leaders (that's Biblical injunction). Partisan politics is our of Deeper Life dictionary.

I'm getting very irritated regarding the prideful behaviour and statements i have seen to be very consistent in many deeperlifers i have met. I have rarely met a deeperlifer who doesn't think his Church is the most superior and all that. I hope the church leadership addresses this, many of you are lost in deep pride. That is just my honest observation.


Also, no pastor's message is inferior to the other. Adeboye preaches Salvation, Oyedepo preaches Faith&Prosperity, Kumuyi preaches Holiness, Joseph Prince preaches Grace. God made it so because believers are different in their needs. A medical doctor may specialise in curing the blood, another curing the eyes. But both are important nonetheless..

As Paul said 'can the head say it has no need for the hands?'. Remove pride from your life it takes man nowhere.

TonyeBarcanista:
Lol na one chance be that because Deeper Life no de do partisan politics and the loyalty of members is to God/Jesus/Bible NOT any pastor, though they respect the pastor as the leader but if him derail(God forbid), THEM GO DISCIPLINE AM

So it is only rccg or winners or christ embassy that are loyal to pastors.
You better don't kid yourself, there is no difference between deeperlife and the other churches. Every major Pentecostal church in Nigeria adore their lead pastor. Don't come and form nonsense here...

In the event of a diagnosis of sub acute appendicitis which is a better and more effective option to take?

A) A day's Intravenous Antibiotic shot with a full course medication on Ciprotab.

B) Surgery


Thank you

Lalasticlala

B

Godwinnairaland:
What! They should consider poor people like us na, which kind country be this, when I am still running around to see if there will be any means of paying my next semester school fee.
Good naira landers help a brother with any kind of legal job you can offer, no matter how low and demeaning it may be, I will gladly accept it, Just for few months, I believe a good Samaritan will come to my rescue, Thanks as you help a brother.

Little advise bro. It is ok to seek help when in need. But never call your self poor, imaginations are powerful tools to make the future we want -
good or bad, see yourself as rich and you would be on the path of wealth.

CodeTemplar:
@HigherEd, might interest u:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6214855/Are-UKs-poshest-student-rooms.html

Mehn see rooms!
I think Pan Atlantic University rooms are also good.

Ezechinwa:
Top 1000? I will rather send my child to a top 50 public school here in the Uk

Top 1000 is a fine place for any university to be amongst 29000 institutions.
There are universities in the UK that don't even measure up to CU or UI. Kemi Adrosun alma mater for instance - uni of east london

Adakintroy:
You word lack love and compasion. Just pure Disdain.
.

When the poor come to you cap in hand pleading for admission this is how you turn them back. Like one without love. Shame on you.

Be kind to strangers. For many in doing so have entertained angels.

No one great will come from such an institution. Marginal great yes maybe. But great men...no!

Why!..ask Jesse father of david. While they look to the heavens they come from beneath the earth.

What has my statement of rules and regulation got to do with depriving poor pepple of admission spaces.

Why won't they record landslide victory, Crazy criminals....

teee2:
make sense.. I bet they are ranked than some foreign universities Nigerians run to..

Yea sure, they are higher than Coventry uni, UK. Univ of East London. Amazingly the organization that ranked it is a british org.

teee2:
true.. I saw somewhere that the research output they have made as at September this year, is more than their total research output for last year already..

good to see them setting the standard for other universities to catch up with..

Yes their research activity for 2018 alone is more than four times higher than all its research effort in the first 10 years combined. If they continue at this pace, research breakthroughs wouldn't be far away from them.

Thevictorious it is exciting seeing CU rank equal with the likes of Coventry and co. This ranking would usher in unprecedented amounts of grants, funded scholars and foreign collaborations. With the rate at which CU is going it would break into top 400 next year.

mayprince:
When you hear about how Covenant University,an experiment in how long young humans can be mentally subjugated without fighting back and a factory producing subservient morons being top 1000 in the world.....lala
who says there is no hope for your life too?

FP material, lalasticlala mynd44

Covenant university is a religious university and expectedly has religious rules. Ever heard of Liberty Uni, Virginia USA where students can not miss more than one chapel service in one semester or Faisal University, Saudi(girls only) where men are barred from entering campus.

Covenant didn't force anyone to attend, and they are not stopping anyone from taking their transcripts and going somewhere either. Anyone that can pay for CU can afford to go somewhwere else....

SpoiltVirgin:
This news has been on for like a month ago

Yea traditionally a letter would be sent notifying a university that it had been included in the top 5% ranking. The CU VC got the letter on Aug 15, 2018 but the ranking was unveiled yesterday.

Johnpaul01:
Oyedepo will buy another private jet to celebrate this one

I tell you they are very ecstatic at this moment. A perfect birthday gift for BDO. Many Many billions have been spent pushing the university to this point. But with a Times ranking, the university would become more financially independent as research grants and international collaborations would come in more frequently than it has been coming before. In fact, with this ranking they are now qualified to receive many independently sponsored scholars, including Tetfund Scholars.

By God's grace Landmark university would also join by 2025.

BTW University Of Nigeria, Nsukka - Data Point cc christejames

Other Global Powers - Data Point


1) Coventry University, UK: 600 -800th
2) University Of Manitoba, Canada: 400 - 500th

3) Massachusetts Institute Of Technology: 4th
4) Stanford University: 3rd

Other African Leaders - Data Point

1) University of Ibadan: 600 - 800th
2) University of Ghana: 800 - 1000th
3) University Of Capetown: 156th
4) University Of Johannesburg: 600 - 800th

Akinbayo Wahab | 20:29 | 26.09.2018

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings rates Covenant University among the first 700 in the world.

Covenant University (Nairaland)
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings has rated Covenant University as one of the top 700 universities in Nigeria.
Covenant University on Wednesday, September 26, 2018, announced the institution's new world ranking on its Twitter handle saying the faith-based school has joined global ranked universities.

The tweet reads: Whoa! Good news. Covenant joins global ranked universities.

Ranked 636 in the world, the faith-based university is rated based on Teachings, Research, Citations, Industry Income and International Outlook.

5 misconceptions about the students of this school
» more Covenant University graduates during convocation ceremony. (Naijaloaded)
Profiling the institution on its website, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings describes the school as one of the leading universities in Africa found on Christian Mission Ethos.

The ranking platform also says Covenant University has had a rapid rise in reputation in the decade and a half it has been operating. The Nigerian Universities Commission named it the best private university in Nigeria in its 2018 rankings and the 6th best university overall.

Earlier in February 2018, Webometrics, another university ranking website rated Covenant University as the second best university in Nigeria.

The top 1000 university ranking is a rank featuring the top 5% universities in the world out of a total of 29,000 institutions globally. It should be noted that over 97% of American institutions don't make the top 1000 rankings.

Covenant University a sixteen year old university which joined the University of Ibadan to emerge one of the few universities in Africa to ever feature in the rankings and the second university from Nigeria to ever appear in the rankings.

Covenant University hereby becomes the first
private university in Nigeria, Second private university in Africa to feature in the top 1000 rankings. Covenant University(2002) and University of Johannesburg(2005) also become the youngest universities from Africa to feature in the ranking.

On the other hand the University of Ibadan also improved from the previous year ranking of 800 - 1000th to 600 - 800th.

Finally, the University Of Nigeria, Nsukka was the third and last university from the entire Nigeria. However it did not make the top 1000 but was ranked 1000+

In West Africa Nigeria leads with three universities featured with Ghana coming second and last with only one university featured at 800 - 1000th; The University of Ghana.

Blog Source: https://www.pulse.ng/communities/student/covenant-university-is-among-top-700-universities-in-the-world-id8905970.html

Ranking Source For Africa
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/where-to-study/study-in-africa





Methodology Of Times Higher World University Ranking

Exclusions
Universities can be excluded from the World University Rankings if they do not teach undergraduates, or if their research output amounted to fewer than 1,000 relevant publications between 2013 and 2017 (with a minimum of 150 a year). Universities can also be excluded if 80 per cent or more of their research output is exclusively in one of our 11 subject areas.


Data collection
Institutions provide and sign off their institutional data for use in the rankings. On the rare occasions when a particular data point is not provided, we enter a conservative estimate for the affected metric. By doing this, we avoid penalising an institution too harshly with a “zero” value for data that it overlooks or does not provide, but we do not reward it for withholding them.

Getting to the final result
Moving from a series of specific data points to indicators, and finally to a total score for an institution, requires us to match values that represent fundamentally different data. To do this, we use a standardisation approach for each indicator, and then combine the indicators in the proportions indicated to the right.

The standardisation approach we use is based on the distribution of data within a particular indicator, where we calculate a cumulative probability function, and evaluate where a particular institution’s indicator sits within that function. A cumulative probability score of X in essence tells us that a university with random values for that indicator would fall below that score X per cent of the time.

For all indicators except for the Academic Reputation Survey, we calculate the cumulative probability function using a version of Z-scoring. The distribution of the data in the Academic Reputation Survey requires us to add an exponential component.

World University Rankings 2019 Metrics



Teaching (the learning environment) – 30%

Reputation survey: 15%
Staff-to-student ratio: 4.5%
Doctorate-to-bachelor’s ration: 2.25%
Doctorates-awarded-to-academic-staff ratio: 6%
Institutional income: 2.25%

The most recent Academic Reputation Survey (run annually) that underpins this category was carried out between January and March 2018. It examined the perceived prestige of institutions in teaching. The responses were statistically representative of the global academy’s geographical and subject mix. The 2018 data are combined with the results of the 2017 survey, giving more than 20,000 responses.

As well as giving a sense of how committed an institution is to nurturing the next generation of academics, a high proportion of postgraduate research students also suggests the provision of teaching at the highest level that is thus attractive to graduates and effective at developing them. This indicator is normalised to take account of a university’s unique subject mix, reflecting that the volume of doctoral awards varies by discipline.

Institutional income is scaled against academic staff numbers and normalised for purchasing-power parity (PPP). It indicates an institution’s general status and gives a broad sense of the infrastructure and facilities available to students and staff.


Research (volume, income and reputation) – 30%

Reputation survey: 18%
Research income: 6%
Research productivity: 6%
The most prominent indicator in this category looks at a university’s reputation for research excellence among its peers, based on the responses to our annual Academic Reputation Survey (see above).

Research income is scaled against academic staff numbers and adjusted for purchasing-power parity (PPP). This is a controversial indicator because it can be influenced by national policy and economic circumstances. But income is crucial to the development of world-class research, and because much of it is subject to competition and judged by peer review, our experts suggested that it was a valid measure. This indicator is fully normalised to take account of each university’s distinct subject profile, reflecting the fact that research grants in science subjects are often bigger than those awarded for the highest-quality social science, arts and humanities research.

To measure productivity we count the number of publications published in the academic journals indexed by Elsevier’s Scopus database per scholar, scaled for institutional size and normalised for subject. This gives a sense of the university’s ability to get papers published in quality peer-reviewed journals. Last year, we devised a method to give credit for papers that are published in subjects where a university declares no staff.

Citations (research influence) – 30%

Our research influence indicator looks at universities’ role in spreading new knowledge and ideas.

We examine research influence by capturing the average number of times a university’s published work is cited by scholars globally. This year, our bibliometric data supplier Elsevier examined 67.9 million citations to 14.1 million journal articles, article reviews, conference proceedings, books and book chapters published over five years. The data include more than 25,000 academic journals indexed by Elsevier’s Scopus database and all indexed publications between 2013 and 2017. Citations to these publications made in the six years from 2013 to 2018 are also collected.

The citations help to show us how much each university is contributing to the sum of human knowledge: they tell us whose research has stood out, has been picked up and built on by other scholars and, most importantly, has been shared around the global scholarly community to expand the boundaries of our understanding, irrespective of discipline.

The data are normalised to reflect variations in citation volume between different subject areas. This means that institutions with high levels of research activity in subjects with traditionally high citation counts do not gain an unfair advantage.

We have blended equal measures of a country-adjusted and non-country-adjusted raw measure of citations scores.

In 2015-16, we excluded papers with more than 1,000 authors because they were having a disproportionate impact on the citation scores of a small number of universities. In 2016-17, we designed a method for reincorporating these papers. Working with Elsevier, we developed a fractional counting approach that ensures that all universities where academics are authors of these papers will receive at least 5 per cent of the value of the paper, and where those that provide the most contributors to the paper receive a proportionately larger contribution.

International outlook (staff, students, research) – 7.5%


Proportion of international students: 2.5%
Proportion of international staff: 2.5%
International collaboration: 2.5%
The ability of a university to attract undergraduates, postgraduates and faculty from all over the planet is key to its success on the world stage.

In the third international indicator, we calculate the proportion of a university’s total research journal publications that have at least one international co-author and reward higher volumes. This indicator is normalised to account for a university’s subject mix and uses the same five-year window as the “Citations: research influence” category.

Industry income (knowledge transfer) – 2.5%


A university’s ability to help industry with innovations, inventions and consultancy has become a core mission of the contemporary global academy. This category seeks to capture such knowledge-transfer activity by looking at how much research income an institution earns from industry (adjusted for PPP), scaled against the number of academic staff it employs.

The category suggests the extent to which businesses are willing to pay for research and a university’s ability to attract funding in the commercial marketplace – useful indicators of institutional quality.


Data Audit: The calculation of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 has been independently audited by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), making these the only global university rankings to be subjected to full, independent scrutiny of this nature.


Source For Methodology:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/methodology-world-university-rankings-2019


TheVictorious Writerights

Buhari shall lose both north central and south west in 2019.

Very good.

Very good....

writerights:
There is no merit list there. Everyone is admitted on the discretion of the administrators. And everyone is eventually admitted.

CU only admits 50% of applicants, ABUAD doesn't admit all applicants for medicine and law. But you are mostly correct, majority of private universities admit all candidates which is a good thing as everyone, brilliant or not deserves to be educated.